Symposium: A Bunch of Books. Book Collections in the Medieval Low Countries

Symposium at the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of Queeste
Organised in cooperation with Radboud University Nijmegen

Date: 14 February 2013
Venue: Gymnasion, room GN 3, Heyendaalseweg 141, 6525 AJ Nijmegen.
Route: http://www.ru.nl/contact/bereikbaarheid/
Costs: €15,– (students 7,50)
Registration: Please send an e-mail to Renée Gabriël (r.gabriel@let.ru.nl) before 1 February 2013

Theme
Due to the überlieferungsgeschichtliche Methode and New Philology, the idea that the meaning of texts is determined by the material context in which they are preserved has become central to the study of historical literature in the Low Countries. However, this approach has mainly inspired researchers to study texts in their manuscript context, especially that of miscellanies. During a symposium on book collections we would like to explore the significance of material context outside the manuscript. Not only individual texts, but also manuscripts as a whole functioned in the context of a larger collection of books and derived meaning from the context of this collection. In Memory’s Library. Medieval Books in Early Modern England(2008) Jennifer Summit stated that ‘libraries were dynamic institutions that actively processed, shaped, and imposed meaning on the very materials they contained’.The focus of this symposium will be on the ways in which books functioned in the context of a collection, on how individual books related to collections as a whole and to the users and owners of these collections. Book collections constitute a melting point of materials and themes that are often studied separately: Latin and vernacular texts, religious and secular literature, manuscript and print, rhyme and prose, splendour and plainness, old and new. By making use of inventories, library catalogues and preserved manuscripts the speakers at this symposium investigate the characteristics, size and meaning of book collections in the Low Countries. They address questions about the owners and users of these collections, social and cultural exchange, the formation of meaning, the organisation of collections, and the consequences of this approach for our view on literary history. The confrontation of the study of texts in their manuscript context and in book collections will be one of the central discussion points of this day.

Program (download pdf)

10:30 Welcome and Coffee
11:00 Introduction
Suzan Folkerts and Renée Gabriël
11:15 
Keynote
Texts in medieval libraries: Thoughts for an integrated approach
Prof. Dr Albert Derolez (Ghent University) 
12:00
Books that are collections of books 
Prof. Dr Herman Brinkman (Huygens ING / University of Amsterdam)
12:30 Lunch
14:00 
Collecting Religious Knowledge: books, libraries and networks
Dr Sabrina Corbellini (University of Groningen)
 
14:30  
Book Collections and their Use. Some Examples from Princely and Noble Libraries
Dr Hanno Wijsman (Institut de recherche et d’histoire des textes Paris)
15:00 Coffee and Tea break
15:30 The Beckers Connection: Some Thoughts on the Latin Books of Hours in the Soeterbeeck Collection
Ad Poirters MA, in collaboration with Dr Hans Kienhorst (Radboud University Nijmegen)
16:00 Keynote 
Devotional anthologies: Collectors of religious texts and their methods
Dr Ryan Perry (University of Kent)
16:45 Drinks

You are also invited to the public lecture Medieval Manuscripts as Truly Open Data by Dr. Will Noel, Director of The Special Collections Center and The Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies (University of Pennsylvania) on Wednesday 13 February at 16:30.

http://www.queeste.verloren.nl/symposium

CEU summer courses

De Central European University te Budapest organiseert een aantal summer schools die interessant kunnen zijn voor mediëvisten. Meer informatie vindt u hieronder.

Course details:
1. MEDIEVAL CODICOLOGY AND PALAEOGRAPHY:
DATES: 15 -20 JULY, 2013
Course director:
Anna Somfai, Senior Research Fellow, Medieval Studies Department,
Central European University, Budapest, Hungary
Faculty:
Niels Gaul, Medieval Studies Department, Central European University,
Budapest, Hungary; David Juste, Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften,
Munich, Germany;
András Németh, Bibliotheca Apostolica Vaticana, Rome, Italy; Inmaculada
Perez Martín, Instituto de lenguas y culturas del mediterraneao y
oriente proximo, Madrid, Spain; Katalin Szende, Medieval Studies
Department, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary

http://www.summer.ceu.hu/codicology-2013

2. READING OLD BODIES: NEW DIRECTIONS IN THE BIO-ARCHAEOLOGICAL
HERITAGE
DATES: 1-12 JULY, 2013
Course director:
Irene Barbiera, Research Fellow, Department of Medieval Studies,
Central European University, Budapest, Hungary
Faculty:
Bonnie Effros, Department of History, University of Florida,
Gainesville, USA; Gundula Muldner, Department of Archaeology, University
of Reading, UK; Raphael Panhuysen, Department of History, Archaeology
and Area Studies, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Ildiko Pap,
Department of Anthropology, Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest,
Hungary; Alice Choyke, Department of Medieval Studies, Central European
University, Budapest, Hungary

http://www.summer.ceu.hu/oldbodies-2013

Financial aid is available.
Application deadline: February 15, 2013
Please visit the individual course web sites for specific information.

www.summer.ceu.hu

Summer University Office
1051 Budapest, Nádor utca 9, Hungary
http://www.summer.ceu.hu
e-mail:summeru@ceu.hu
tel: 36 1 327 3811

Pro Civitate Prijs

De Koninklijke Academies voor Wetenschappen en Kunsten van België reiken de ‘Pro Civitate’ Prijs uit aan een onuitgegeven doctoraatsverhandeling die een originele en belangrijke bijdrage vormt tot de stadsgeschiedenis of tot de lokale geschiedenis. Meer informatie vindt u in bijgaande oproep.

Procivitate.PrijsRegl.def

Summer School – Crossing the Languages of Medieval Europe

In juni 2013 organiseren het Centre for Medieval Literature (University of Southern Denmark en University of York) en het  Henri Pirenne Institute for Medieval Studies (Universiteit Gent) een Summer School. Het thema is Crossing the Languages of Medieval Europe: Historical, Linguistic and Literary Approaches. De Summer School gaat door in de Academia Belgica te Rome van 3 tot 8 juni 2013. Er zijn vijf beurzen voor het bijwonen van de Summer School beschikbaar. Meer informatie in bijgevoegde folder.

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Call for papers: Experiences of Governance: Navigating Jurisdictional Spheres in the Later Middle Ages

Birkbeck College, Malet Street, London
Saturday 2 March 2013

Sponsors: Oxford Centre for Medieval History
Department of History, Classics and Archaeology, Birkbeck College

Organisers: Tom Johnson (Birkbeck College, London)
Samantha Sagui (Fordham University)
Eliza Hartrich (Merton College, Oxford)

Keynote Speakers: Dr Ian Forrest (Oriel College, Oxford)
Prof Jelle Haemers (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)

The aim of this conference is to bring together scholars from Britain and the Continent who are interested in exploring the ways in which late-medieval people navigated the law, legal institutions, and jurisdictions.  Rather than focusing on the formal rules according to which legal and governing institutions operated, this conference highlights the practical experience of consumers of the law in later medieval Europe.  In line with the ‘new legal history’, it hopes to encourage an approach that considers legal processes in the later middle ages as a product of wider society and culture, and, in particular, to examine popular ideas of justice and order which informed litigants’ use of the legal mechanisms at their disposal.

We invite postgraduate students and early career academics to present twenty-minute papers. Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

  • The contrasting experiences of local, seigneurial, royal, and ecclesiastical jurisdictions
  • The way that consumers of the law negotiated jurisdictions, and how they formulated jurisdictional differences for their own purposes
  • Popular constructions and contestations of law and legal norms
  • Formal and informal mechanisms for social control, and the relationship between such mechanisms
  • The construction and negotiation of legal and jurisdictional boundaries

Please submit a 300-word abstract to Tom Johnson (tomlukejohnson@gmail.com) by 15th December 2012.

Further information can be found on our conference page at the IHR website, http://events.history.ac.uk/event/show/7722.

Call for papers: Water History Conference

IWHA Conference – Montpellier, France

The International Water History Association holds its next conference in Montpellier, southern France between June 25 and 29, 2013.The conference itself will take place from 26 to 28 June 2013 in the Pierres Vives archival building of the Conseil General de l’Herault, whose support is kindly acknowledged.

Abstracts and sessions

The program committee welcomes abstracts for individual papers as well as proposals for complete sessions. Session proposals should include either 1) three papers and a commentator or 2) four papers; the inclusion of a session chair is encouraged. Proposals for double sessions will also be accepted. We seek papers on all aspects of water history, from rivers to drops, from seas to mountain lakes, from technologies to cultures. Having said that, submissions on three topics are encouraged:

  • Archival sources – as the conference is hosted in Pierrevives
  • Irrigation – as Montpellier is surrounded by and is famous for its irrigation
  • Cooperation – as 2013 is the UN International Year of Water Cooperation

Submission process for abstracts and sessions

  • All abstracts, both for individual papers and those proposed for sessions, will be reviewed by the program committee.  Paper abstracts should not exceed 300 words.
  • Individual abstracts should be submitted by the main author.
  • Complete session proposals should contain the session title, a 100-word description of the session, names, affiliations, and contact information of presenters, commentators, and chair, and titles and abstracts for all the papers. Session proposals should be submitted by the session organizer.

Send session and abstract proposals to Waterhistory2013@tudelft.nl

Time schedule

  • Abstracts and sessions can be submitted between October 1st 2012 and December 31st2012.
  • Decisions on acceptance are foreseen to be available on March 1st 2013.
  • The final conference program will be available on May 1st 2013. To appear on the program, presenters with accepted abstracts need to register before April 1st 2013.

Practical information

More detailed information on fees and other practical issues will become available soon. But reserve the last week of June in 2013 for Montpellier!

On June 25, a trip to the fascinating site of Montady, a 13th century radioconcentric drainage project, will be on offer for those who arrive early.

On the night of June 28, the conference dinner will be held in Chateau de Bocaud, the city of Jacou, near the old noria, which has just been restored by the municipality.

On June 27, IWHA will invite the public of Montpellier to hear our work on water history.

For those who want to go on, Saturday June 29 will be a day for others possible visits in the region.

On-line catalogus: Nederlandse tekeningen uit de vijftiende en de zestiende eeuw

In de periode 2009-2012 is de gehele verzameling Nederlandse tekeningen uit de vijftiende en de zestiende eeuw voor het eerst in de museumgeschiedenis grondig onderzocht. Vijf onderzoekers bestudeerden in totaal een groep van ongeveer 450 tekeningen. Zij deden dit in nauw contact met diverse experts in binnen- en buitenland. Dit leidde tot diverse toe- en afschrijvingen: er kwamen tekeningen bij, maar er vielen ook diverse tekeningen af, bijvoorbeeld doordat deze na onderzoek aan een buitenlandse hand konden worden toegeschreven. De huidige catalogus bestaat uit 403 tekeningen, waarvan 224 van anonieme makers, de overige van 63 verschillende meesters.
Het onderzoek kon worden verricht dankzij een subsidie van het Mondriaan Fonds. Deze digitale bestandscatalogus brengt een belangrijke deelcollectie van het museum onder de aandacht van een groot publiek.

Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen beheert een van de belangrijkste verzamelingen tekeningen van oude meesters ter wereld. Een belangrijk deel daarvan, de Nederlandse tekeningen uit de vijftiende en zestiende eeuw, is nu voor het eerst wetenschappelijk ontsloten in een digitale bestandscatalogus. Deze omvat ruim 400 tekeningen en is tegelijkertijd de eerste online catalogus die het museum van zijn collectie publiceert.

Museum Boijmans van Beuningen bezit naast een collectie van 60.000 tot 70.000 prenten ongeveer 17.000 tekeningen, waarvan 13.000 door kunstenaars geboren voor 1875. Sinds 2009 is de gehele verzameling Nederlandse tekeningen uit de vijftiende en de zestiende eeuw voor het eerst in de museumgeschiedenis grondig onderzocht. Vijf onderzoekers bestudeerden in totaal een groep van ongeveer 400 tekeningen. Zij deden dit in nauw contact met diverse experts in binnen- en buitenland. Het onderzoek leidde tot diverse nieuwe toeschrijvingen aan kunstenaars, terwijl ook sommige bestaande toeschrijvingen veranderden. Er kwamen tekeningen bij, maar er vielen ook diverse af. De uiteindelijke catalogus op collectie.boijmans.nl omvat 403 tekeningen (en 53 recto’s), waarvan de helft anoniem is en de andere helft van de hand van ruim 60 verschillende meesters, onder wie Hendrick Goltzius, Hans Bol, Karel van Mander en Abraham Bloemaert.

De redactie van de bestandscatalogus was in handen van Jonieke van Es en Albert Elen. De catalogus is geschreven door Yvonne van Bleyerveld, Albert Elen, Judith Niessen, met bijdragen van Peter van der Coelen en Ariane van Suchtelen.

Lezingenreeks – Pratiques médiévales de l’écrit (Université de Namur)

Le centre de recherche « Pratiques médiévales de l’écrit » (Université de Namur) organise son quatrième cycle de séminaires-conférences. Une fois par mois, de décembre 2012 à mai 2013, des médiévistes issus d’horizons divers présenteront un aspect de leurs travaux en rapport avec la problématique des usages de l’écriture au Moyen Âge. Les séances prendront place le jeudi de 16h00 à 18h00.

Créé en 2011, le Centre de recherche « Pratiques médiévales de l’écrit » réunit les médiévistes de l’Université de Namur (enseignants, chercheurs, doctorants et post-doctorants) qui s’intéressent à la problématique multiforme de l’écrit au Moyen Âge, ainsi qu’une vingtaine de membres associés belges et étrangers. Son objectif principal est de promouvoir les collaborations à tous niveaux dans ce secteur de la médiévistique occidentale actuellement en plein essor, grâce à des initiatives de coordination et de décloisonnement de la recherche, qui passent notamment par l’organisation de colloques, de conférences et d’ateliers de recherche interdisciplinaires.

Programme des séminaires-conférences 2012-2013 :

Jeudi 20 décembre 2012
Catharina Peersman (University of Sheffield)
« In litteris vulgaris dictis » : l’emploi et la perception des langues dans la Flandre médiévale

Jeudi 31 janvier 2013
Stéphanne Gioanni (École française de Rome)
La construction d’un lien hagiographique entre l’Église de Rome et la Dalmatie : autour de la « Vita Domnii » d’Adam de Paris (XIe siècle)

Jeudi 21 février 2013
Nicolangelo D’Acunto (Università cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Milano)
Les inscriptions des fresques de Giotto dans la Basilique Supérieure de Saint-François d’Assise

Jeudi 7 mars 2013
François Bougard (Université de Paris-Ouest-Nanterre-La Défense)
Du catalogue aux manuscrits : l’inventaire de la bibliothèque cistercienne de Vauluisant

Jeudi 18 avril 2013
Maria Careri (Università degli Studi G. D’Annunzio, Chieti)
Écrire en français au XIIe siècle

Jeudi 2 mai 2013
Céline Van Hoorebeeck (Bibliothèque universitaire Moretus-Plantin, Namur)
Dans les allées du pouvoir. Livres et lectures des fonctionnaires des ducs de Bourgogne (ca 1420-1520)

Informations pratiques :

Les séances se tiendront de 16h00 à 18h00 au Séminaire Histoire de la Faculté de Philosophie et Lettres de l’Université de Namur. Adresse : 61, rue de Bruxelles, B – 5000 Namur (Belgique).
Entrée libre.
Contact : xhermand@fundp.ac.be ou jfnieus@fundp.ac.be.

Comité d’organisation :

Paul Bertrand (Université catholique de Louvain – Université de Namur)
Xavier Hermand (Université de Namur)
Jean-François Nieus (FNRS – Université de Namur)
Giovanni Palumbo (Université de Namur)
Étienne Renard (Université de Namur)

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Cultures et idéologies urbaines dans les anciens Pays-Bas, workshop Lille 30/11

Op 30 november vindt in Lille (F) een workshop plaats innen het overkoepelende thema ‘Cultures et idéologies urbaines dans les anciens Pays-Bas’. In deze eerste van een reeks van drie workshops zal het meer specifiek gaan over de ‘Espace économique et matériel: Production, milieu et préservation en ville et autour de la ville’. U vindt een gedetailleerd programma en informatie over inschrijven in de bijlage of hier.

Culture urbaine Workshop Lille